Coin-receptacle.



No. 664,990 Patented Ian. 190i.

0. BURNS.

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(Appliufion filed Oct. 13, 1900.)

(No Modal.)

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

OWEN BURNS OFCHIOAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE W. F. BURNS COMPANY,OF SAME PLACE.

COlN-REQEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 4, dat d- January 1901- 7 Application filed October 13, 1900.- serial No. 32,934. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN BURNS, a citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and'State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Coin-Receptacle, of which the following is a specification in its best form now known to me, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to coin-receptacles, and particularly to those of savings-banks. Its object is to provide a chamber in which coins can be inserted through an opening in the outer wall and from which the coin can only be withdrawn by unlocking the door.

My invention consists, essentially, of an antechamber within the main chamber in the receptacle, to which a coin is admitted through an opening in the outside of the box, and an opening leading from the antechamber to the main chamber, so placed that the coin has to be tilted through a substantial angle, preferably about ninety degrees, from its position when it enters the antechamber before it can pass through the second slot.

It also consists in means operable from the outside of the box for so tilting the coin. I have found that in a box so constructed it is impossible to extract a coin from the inner chamber through the path by which the coin entered. I do not limit myself to the exact details of construction, which may be greatly varied without departing from the broad principle of my invention.

My invention also consists of the details of construction hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows in perspective the exterior of the coin-box; Fig. 2, a sectional view showing the interior of the box, with the interior mechanism in the position it assumes when the coin has just been inserted from the outside; and Fig. 3 shows the position of the parts just before the coin is allowed to pass from the antechamber into the inner chamber. Fig.4: shows a modified form of construction.

The bank consists of the box a, which may be of any size or shape desired. It has a door I), normally secured by the look a, so that coins cannot be removed by mischievous persons.

In the end of the box is the slot (1, through which extends the upper end e of the lever or latch-plate f, which is pivoted at g to the front and rear of the box a. This latch may be pivoted at various points; but I find that it works best when pivoted at one side of the plane of its surface, about as shown. This latch-plate f is substantially the width of the interiorof the box. Rigidly secured to the top and sides of the box is the plate h, extending down so that its end i is about a quarter to three-eighths of an inch above the end It of the lever f when in its lowest position. Pivotally mounted at Z on the under side of h and normally forming an extension of it is another latch m, having its lower end a Weighted, so that when the box is in the vertical position the latch m will be'in the position shown and about the width of the largest coin from the end k of the latch f. If the box is inverted, the end n will fall against the end it and close the opening. It will be seen that the plate h and the latches f and m thus form an antechamber 0, having as an entrance from the outside the slot at (which is so proportioned that when the end 6 of the plate f is depressed the largest coins, as silver dollars or twenty-dollar gold pieces, will pass through it) and as an entrance to the inner chamber p the opening between it and n.

In operation the box is first locked and placed where it is to stand for the reception of money. A person desiring to deposit money in the box takes hold of lever e and depresses it, as shown in Fig. 3. He now inserts the coin in the slot d and releases both it and the lever, with the result that the coin rsettles to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, its lower edge lying across the opening is n and at right angles to it. The operator now again presses the handle 6 and in so doing tilts the coin first to the position shown in dotted lines 4", Fig. 2, and finally to that of r", Fig. '3, where the coin has passed the vertical and is at substantially ninety degrees from its original position. In doing this the coin has been held from slipping by resting against the end 2' of the plate h. In other words, this end t has acted as a fulcrum on which to turn the The operator now releases the handle coin.

e, thereby allowing the plate f to fall to its lowest position and the coin to pass between and n into the interior chamber 13.

If desired, the lever f may be shortened, as shown in Fig. 4, and a bars secured across the box and in the same plane with the lever when in its lowest position, the lower edge 250E this barbeing in the same position with reference to n that 70 is in Figs. 2and 3. The only variation in the operation is that the coin is tilted by a jerking instead of a steady motion of the lever f. In other words, the coin is flipped over by a blow from leverfinstead of being slowly turned over in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and heretofore described.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In apparatus of the class described, the combination of a box having a slot in one of its outer walls, an antechamber within said box having a slot, approximately at right angles to the first slot, leading from the ante chamber to the inner chamber, and a latchplate, having one end extending through the outside slot, adapted when operated from without to tilt a coin in the antechamber from its position after entering the outside slot to the position required to pass through the inner slot.

2. In apparatus of the class described, the combination of the box having a slot in one of its outer walls, a latch plate pivot-ally mounted within said box having its upper end extending through said slot, apartit'ionwall forming an antechamber above the upper side of said plate, and a coin-slot substantially at right angles to the plane of said pivoted plate, leading into the inner chamber of the box.

3. In apparatus of the class described, the combination of a box having a slot in one of its outer walls, a latch-plate pivotally mounted within said box having its upper end extending through said slot, a partition-wall inclosing the end of said latch so as to form an antechamber around the upper end of said latch, the end of said partitionwall being such a distance from and in the plane of the end of the latch-plate that a slot is left for the passage of a coin from the antechamber into the inner chamber.

at. In apparatus of the class described the combination of the box having a slot in one of the outer Walls, a latch-plate pivotally mounted within said box having its upper end extending through said slot, a partition-wallinclosing the end of said latch so as to form an antechamber around the upper side of said latch, the end of said partition-wall being at such a distance from, and in the plane of, the

end of the latch-plate that a slot is left for the passage of a coin from the antechamber into the inner chamber, and a projection on said partition adapted to engage the edge of a coin so that it may be turned through a large angle substantially as described.

5. In apparatus of the class described the combination of the box having a slot in one of the outer walls, a latch-plate pivotally mounted within said box having its upper end extending through said slot, a partition-wall inclosing the end of said latch so as to form an antechamber around the upper side of said latch, the end of said partition-wall being at such a distance from, and in the plane of, the end of the latch-plate that a slot is left for the passage of a coin from the antechamber into the inner chamber, and mechanism for automatically closing said slot when the box is moved substantially from its normal position substantially as described.

6. In apparatus of the class described the combination of a box, a slot 01 in one wall, a latch or lever f pivotally mounted within the box having its upper end 6 extending through said slot, a partition-wall h inclosing the upper side of latch f so as to form the ante chamber 0, the lower edge t of partition It being adapted to act as a fulcrum for turning a coin and a second latch on pivot-ally mounted on the partition h with its lower edge a normally in the plane of, and a coins width from, the end 7c of the latch f, substantially as shown and described.

7. In apparatus of the class described the combination of a box having a slot in one of its outer walls, an antechamber within said box having a slot, approximately at right angles to the first slot, leading from the antechamber to the inner chamber, and a lever having one end extending outside the box adapted when operated from without to tilt a coin in the antechamber from its position after entering the outside slot to the position required to pass through the inner slot.

8. In apparatus of the class described the combination of a box having a slot in one of its outer walls, an antechamber within said box having a slot, approximately at right angles to the first slot, leading from the antechamber to the inner chamber and a latchplate, adapted to normally close the outer slot, having a portion extending outside the box, adapted when operated from without to tilt a coin in the antechamber from its position after entering the outside slot to the position required to pass through the inner slot.

OWVEN BURNS.

Witnesses:

DWIGHT B. CHEEVER, ROBERT CATHERWOOD. 

